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Ok, maybe not for dinner, per se, but maybe after dinner with your daily vitamins.
That’s right. Women are choosing to ingest their own placentas after they give birth, mostly by way of encapsulation, but a few eat it in things like lasagna as a substitute for the meat.
This phenomenon hit the news late March when January Jones told People Magazine that she chose to “eat” her placenta after having her baby.… [Read more]
The following interview with psychology teacher and author Steve Taylor was published in April 2012 issue of Recovering the Self- a journal of hope and healing. The article is republished here with the permission of the journal’s editor.
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New beginnings come after our soul is freed from shackles of suffering and the scars of trauma.… [Read more]
We pay the price for the sins of our fathers. In no realm is this more obvious than the post-divorce status of the modern American male. Vilified, sometimes rightfully so, most often not. A series of hoops to jump for that Y chromosome have been implemented because the vile minority have shown how low we can go.… [Read more]
I am an English teacher.
I have my degree in reading and writing.
I love words. Printed words. On paper.
I swore I would never ever get a Kindle or a Nook. Not me. I would always get real books. And my kids? They would have a huge collection of actual books and they would love them.… [Read more]
Being a Peranakan (Malay term which means “locally born”) I’m blessed to have an extremely rich heritage which draws from both Chinese traders from the 14th century to the 19th century… [Read more]
I went on the road last week to tell some jokes in an all female comedy competition. Well, the car was touching the road. I was manipulating the car. I could really use some lessons in manipulation though. It’s tough! … [Read more]
This month’s Real Simple (April) had a large piece on how women spend their time and why they seem to have no free time.
I’m a woman, I spend my time on stuff, and I seem to have very little free time, so I was curious to read their survey results to see what was going on.… [Read more]
I am amazed by how big the ocean is. You stand ashore, and as far as the eye can see is nothing but blue. The depths are equally awe-inspiring. In “shallow” regions, the water can be 600 feet deep; in not-so-shallow waters, it can be 20,000 feet without breaking a sweat. Twenty thousand feet of water…for miles upon miles…as far as the eye can see.… [Read more]
Only those who have been there understand. The agonies of adolescent obesity. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury? Look at this tangle of thorns.
I feel like this must be prefaced with the following disclaimer: so deeply rooted is the hurt, so deeply buried is the truth. The path to normalcy begins with a blind acceptance and a willingness to do whatever makes “normal” possible.… [Read more]
There is a battle raging on the internet.
It’s not about birth control or abortion or health care.
It’s not about the economy or oil prices.
Nope. This war is about working. But it’s not about the unemployment rate.
It’s about whether or not moms should be working.
And unlike the birth control debate, this isn’t a topic that old white dudes are discussing.… [Read more]
Talk about Singapore and one is most likely to go “Where?” ” Is it a part of China?” No it’s not. Singapore is a country in its own rights.
Many people may not have heard about this island country but it is located in Asia between Malaysia and Indonesia. It has been given the endearment the “Little Red Dot” after the former Indonesian President B.J.… [Read more]
The saying in my small town is that there is a church on every corner. And really, it’s not far from the truth. We are a small community and have about 20 churches in our small city and township limits — most of them being Christian Reformed Churches.
Not surprisingly, we also have a lot of Republicans.… [Read more]
A couple months ago I read a book called Why Women Need Fat
by William D Lassek, MD and Steven Gaulin.
I was skeptical that it would just be another gimmicky thing about weight loss, but instead I read things that made my entire struggle with weight and food choices make sense.
While the book had a LOT more to say, the thing that kept smacking me in the face was that our bodies were not built to eat food that has to be manufactured and altered in order to actually BE food.… [Read more]
I didn’t. I should have and I could have but I didn’t. Here is the sad tale.
I had been living in Chicago for a year and I had made some new friends. We had been running around having fun all that time and hadn’t thought things were going to change but they did. The reason I was in Chicago in the first place is because I was supposed to be going to college.… [Read more]
Isolation. Uninformed. Amish. Boring.
These are just a couple of the words my high school students came up with this week when I asked them what they would think of a teenager who told them his/her family doesn’t own or watch TV.
None of them could fathom that such a thing exists even though many admitted they don’t watch the TVs they have that often.… [Read more]
Becoming a new father involves a great philosophical change. No longer are you thinking about how much money you can save for the weekend or the month, but of how much you should save for the next 18 years. My wife and I are welcoming a baby boy into our lives this May and cannot be happier about it.… [Read more]
In researching my family history recently I discovered a few amazing facts. My maternal grandmother, Bridie Barry Sullivan, grew up on a remote isle off the cost of southern County Kerry, Ireland. Every day she and her family would catch fresh fish and would take a small boat into the shores of Chirseveen, Ireland for school times.… [Read more]
We are spoon fed a dream growing up in America that is akin to a grandiose fairy tale. We are programmed to believe that the corporate ladder is there to be climbed – and if we sweat and bleed enough, one day we will reach the top of it victorious. It is ingrained in us that the path to reach the top of the highest mountain is to buckle down and study, avoid excessive idle time and make sure to pad our academic resumes with lots and lots of meaningful extracurricular activities.… [Read more]
Those of you who read TheBrooklynDame regularly know that nearly everything I discuss here has a political angle. Whether I’m talking about the unwillingness and inability of our political leaders to get off their collective borderline crazy arses and realise that if the President is flushed down the loo then we suffer too! work together and do something productive to move this nation forward, the underlying theme is managing our responsibilities.… [Read more]
You beautiful dame…here’s to your first 235 years — and here’s to many more. I wish you prosperity, fairness, grace and peace for all of your citizens and those whom you influence around the world!
